Seattle daily post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, W.T. [Wash.]) 1881-1888, 1887-02-11

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deco. ehaiia soEer to aands tno1nese
De erdfsh swim opeF t1a2a s4n1y 80
souna. and feed Oh the llitie hsa nnesf
renfh them. The cod goes o1s mo
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on evil var i uas euppoaed tn4l ~ Z.
COO zen frou tie di1sFent nations q
the warId i've b fbess fisheries ADORE
ths Grand baak, whiob . perhaps mefe
vide ekan IL i long. heavy f@RA eAlss
m spxinQ, sunmef ans fHli, and rain =
oaut.nu0as fran theae soEss wnien are
80 depss fhnt IS distance 81 - teet
solsd obiscs like . steamship 9 invisible.
IceherRs Is wsll e. steamships cross
tkeas banks, giving no notice. ana tley
sften ran down tie GshsImens gso roe
there AZ anshoK and work day ana
Eighf. Thsy can tell ths ictberEa ~
the eurf which roars against theix oaseA
ard The sfsam1eFs 10 cur day keep ~ 81
habitual whisflina; yes this z but saiah
urateetson 20 ths Gabermen-"
what kind Of 6sh d they take 90
these banksfp
ssThey saks cod, herring and haddeek,
ana Of course mackerel. mainly. It's
Hrisiah. however, have extends6 Their
isaIous system of protscfina rivers for
80 So Z, Canada. and tharefufe Amer
icans IIke President Arthur Who 80 up
there have 10 get the Lease Of FigeE.
Thsg lease the salmon rivers Tor nine
yeaFs, and at tbs afst day Of every ye1f
~ advertise those which are not let- A
foreigner can Lei river iast 90 readily
~ . native II be BIDS higher. Iney ~
them, often prescribing the MEMBER o.
fishing rods that can Be aeee. Ins
Canadians bsve o regular minister eI
Marine and FisheFies at Ottawa One
OF thsss rivers for sporting purposes VII
lease for from 500 10 500 . year. Tor
ab01t twice ~ many Fodsi Q guioe coasa
81 day"
"What vas The commencement Of this
fisheries interestl
'.Oh, II goes back 70 the very nFst soy
ace In the Newfoundland waters ana
indeed, bat for the fisheries - SEA and
The fur skins on land. there might have
bsen no permanent OanAds 81 Al
When Sebastian Cabos, from whom the
Americans and British derive their title
70 North America. came sailing over
those banks oniy ten o. twelve years 81
ter Columbus discovered the new world,
hs found such multifades OF large nab
that be said they impeded the navigs-
tian OF his ships. A. early as l5O4 the
Basaaes. who come from the Soath OF
Francs, near Spain, and are very Feli
Qi0ns, and the Normans and Bretons,
who are the natural sesmen Of France,
started 10 Numbers 90 hsh 90 the two
coasts Of Cape Breton and Newfeund-
land. They called The goldfish baccaleos.
The natives close By ate the 1sh raw.
The Spanish being hot Catholics at that
time, having last had a tnssle With the
moore and banished the Jews, began to
give boanties for their Subjects 20 60 out
aud lish 90 that they could have seme-
thing 10 eat on fast days besides eRRs.
This little matter OF religion, even more
than the question Of hunger, caused
and still causes 90 great an interest In
the fisheries of Newfoundland The
Basuues gave the name to Cape Breton
Island from q headiand IN their own
coontry. They claim 10 this day that
they cot into the Gulf Of Sc. Lawrence
hundred years before the time OF
Columbus, kus they we're always bragg
gers ia that province. The interest IN
the Hsheries of course brought about
war, and the Virginians went 40 and
assaulted the French, and finally
the French, when they completed
their hold on CaBads, resolved
10 bald big cty like Boston for the
protection Of the fisheries. They called
Il Loaisburg, after their King. The
only trade OF this immense fortress.
which nearly ruined France TO build
aud keep u. was In Goldfish. About lI44,
Captain D'Ullos, Of the spanish Navy,
for whom the Castle Of Vera Cruz, IN
Mexico. Is named, stopped at L0uisbuEg
and found one individual who owned
from forty 10 fifty hshing barks, each
manned By three OF four men, who went
daily out 10 the banks aud we're paid 40
c0rdinR 10 their catch. The French
trading vessels came ont with provi-
sions. vine, brandy. eta, and found the
warehouses Of Lo1isbRrg filed with
goldfish. which they took in exchange or
carried 20 France on account. The
French colonies In the West ladies, like
st. Domingo aud Martinique, had ves-
sells which regularly ran 20 Lonisburg
with sugar, tsbanes, coffee and rum,
and vent home filled With Goldfish. The
YaBkee traders took vegetables, fruit,
oate. shingles and bricks 70 LoaisburR
10 pay for their West IniiA produce,
and they often suFreptitiously 8. ID tbs
ash Ia defiance Of French Law 10 French
smuggleFs. A French government put
executions upon their fishermen, while
the Yankee English had nons such"
"Were the French fishermen gener-
ally speaking. well of In these tmesg
st seems not. Garneau, the chief
Canadian historian. says that most OF
the Inhabitants lived IN misery thai
they had 10 pay TOO much for salt and
provisions and insurance, and that az
Ficaltars was kept At q lev ebb BY every
body going of 1shing."